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... thing uncertain , fluctuating , and transient . At all events , he contented himself with bringing these later ordinances , as fast as they were issued , into a separate collection , where they stood in chronological order , without any ...
... thing uncertain , fluctuating , and transient . At all events , he contented himself with bringing these later ordinances , as fast as they were issued , into a separate collection , where they stood in chronological order , without any ...
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... things in the Eastern Empire . In Western Europe the Corpus Juris had never found currency , except in Italy ; and here , in some parts and cities of the peninsula , it still enjoyed an obscure and precarious influence . How it emerged ...
... things in the Eastern Empire . In Western Europe the Corpus Juris had never found currency , except in Italy ; and here , in some parts and cities of the peninsula , it still enjoyed an obscure and precarious influence . How it emerged ...
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... things of later origin - maintained its leading position ; but with this , to supply its deficiencies , the Corpus Juris was received as auxiliary law . In Spain , too , it was received in much the same way . In England , the Roman law ...
... things of later origin - maintained its leading position ; but with this , to supply its deficiencies , the Corpus Juris was received as auxiliary law . In Spain , too , it was received in much the same way . In England , the Roman law ...
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... things , a system of personal , rath- er than territorial , law : the law to which a man was subject depended not so much on the place where he lived , as the race to which he belonged . The principle was , " German law for the Germans ...
... things , a system of personal , rath- er than territorial , law : the law to which a man was subject depended not so much on the place where he lived , as the race to which he belonged . The principle was , " German law for the Germans ...
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... things here described , as subsisting in Gaul under the Franks , was not confined to that prov- ince . It prevailed with little difference in Spain under the Visigoths , and in Italy under the Lombards . The condition of Britain was ...
... things here described , as subsisting in Gaul under the Franks , was not confined to that prov- ince . It prevailed with little difference in Spain under the Visigoths , and in Italy under the Lombards . The condition of Britain was ...
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Page 49 - ... conqueror of Italy, humbler of Germany, terror of the North — saw him account all his matchless victories poor compared with the triumph you are now in a condition to win — saw him contemn the fickleness of Fortune, while, in despite of her, he could pronounce his memorable boast, " I shall go down to posterity with the Code in my hand!